5 JANUARY 1945, Page 21

THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 304

(A Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, January 16th. Envelopes should be received not later than first post that day and must bear the word "Crossword," the NUMBER of the puzzle and a zit'. stamp. Solutions must be on the form below, and none can be accepted from the U.S.A. The solono-• and the name of the winner will be published in the following issue.]

9. Reap and reap to make an Irish

5. Deadly. (6.)

o. Horses that cut up the country. (6.) 2. Just imagine. (6.) 3. Fit to be eaten, but takes little 8. The sickle is, in the process of har- 5. No doubt he thinks " a thing of duty t. It doesn't mean that the golfer had soldier. (8.) staying. Power. (5, 3.) credit. (8.)

is a toy for ever." (I2.) (3, 2, 3, 4.)

vesting, thus embarrassingly placed. ACROSS

3. A favourite centre of tanks and sub- SOLUTION TO marines. (8.) CROSSWORD No. 302 One of Shakespeare's reputations. (6.)

6. Hale's pipers. (6.) . Pabulum of difficult marine manoeuvre. (4, 4.) 8. He is in the edges of the cathedral. (6.)

9. Where to go for a French dance later. (8.)

DOWN I. A solitary and sometimes crabbed figure. (6.)

2. Tailor's little dog, maybe. (6.)

3. Severe. (6.) 4. One can't get really confused with it. (4.) 6. Chained, possibly to prevent it bur- rowing. (7.) 7. Sweet recipe for cooking. (8.) 8. Dear silk is camouflaged in Corn- wall_ (8.) 20. Swinburne wrote not one but a cen- 25. A change of vowels. (6.)

22. Keats wanted one full of Hippo-

25. Journalist and a man of letters, too. 17. " Say not, the - nought avail- 19. Three feet one member. (7.) 14. It helps to put the out in gout. (7.) 16. Johnson didn't display his 1. Habitation of an o d flame. (6.) - crene. (6.) vain." (Clough.) (8.) eth, The labour and the wounds are (4.) " Rambler " on this. (8.) tury. (7.)